AtD translation: nested tables

[rich]

some other tidbits:

there are somewhat anal formal wear requirements at Oxbridge high table at
Cambridge when students eat with senior fellows ('regulations')
some of the  colleges in Cambridge have been known even to this day to have
less than savory menus (lots of drink though). at one time you were out of
luck if you were a vegetarian. I can imagine what the menus were like in
the 19th century. Things are  a bit better today
here's Girton's dining hall:
https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/conferencing/conferences/rooms/great-hall.
I've eaten here. It's a lovely space (though I was there for lunch and not
jam packed for a formal dinner).
Girton also is one of the more lovely colleges--its grounds are quite
beautiful. it's a bit out of the center of town and not packed together
like the more traditional colleges like Trinity, St John's and King's.

rich


On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 4:31 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 498.7-11   Meanwhile Yashmeen was finding Girton increasingly tiresome, the
> epidemic idiocy, the impossible dress regulations, not to mention the food,
> unimproved by the saturated blonde light that descended into Hall through
> the high arch of overhead panes, bathing the nested tables and the linen
> and chattering girls.
>
> What are "nested tables"?
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